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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Wet or dry weather lube?
Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 17:58:26 -0400
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On Fri, 31 May 2024 17:55:04 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
wrote:

>Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 31 May 2024 15:56:43 GMT, Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun Feb 4 16:01:45 2024 db  wrote:
>>>> I see that there are two sorts of a certain chain lubricant,
>>>> for wet or dry conditions. I bought the wet one because it
>>>> rained a lot here in Denmark at the time. But I expect a dry
>>>> spell in summer, so should I then switch to the other, or is
>>>> the wet version good in all cases?
>>>> -- 
>>>> Dieter Britz
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Deiter, I have found that hot waxing a chain is the ideal lubricant
>>> under any condition. I happen to have all of the necessary ingredients
>>> and mechanisms to do it myswelf but lacking those I would buy the
>>> "special blend" hot wax and the hot pot toi apply it from Silca. They
>>> also sell a wax treatment that you can use between full treatments as a
>>> semi-liquid wax treatment that you could apply and allow to dry overnight.
>>> 
>>> This has two effects - everything remains remarkably clean and the chain
>>> and sprockets make very little if any noise.
>> 
>> I'm done with wax based lubes. I'm going back to Finish Line dry
>> teflon lube when I put the new chain on.
>> 
>
>I do like how clean the drip on ones are, such as Squirt don’t last long
>with wet weather, such as this spring!
>
>Some of the all weather ones seem to stay fairly, clean and resist being
>washed out!
>
>Roger Merriman

I've used Finish Line Dry for years until I switched to White
Lightning for this chain.  It looks like I'll get the same mileage out
of this chain, but I hate how the wax builds up on everything and
won't come off with regular cleaning solvent.